The Alliances of Spin-offs Versus Start-ups: Social Ties in the Genesis of Post-Soviet Alliances

Organization Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 368-381

  Sedaitis, Judith ^a  

^a SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliances; Embeddedness; Foundings; Network

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032373077     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.9.3.368     Document Type: Article

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